Republicans’ new tax law decreased Amazon's taxes 87%, while the corporate giant's profits grew. The company’s U.S. taxes went $9 billion $1.2 billion. Amazon is also in the process of cutting 30,000 jobs.

The Nebraska legislature has approved a bill that LOWERS the minimum wage from $15 an hour to $13.50 for young workers. nebraskapublicmedia.org/en/news/news...

Spicy take, but the 20% of the people who don't make it back to a stable life still deserve to have their basic needs met.

Kinda wild to think that we made exceptions for ignorant influencers to sell food products at grocery stores that are full of cow poop and bacteria that kills people. If I put raw cow poop in other food and sold it to people I’d go to jail. Maybe deadly poop juice shouldn’t be for sale at the store?

Not only were the results off by 35-fold, Jay didn’t disclose that he recruited subjects by having his wife email parents of the middle school in his wealthy community, falsely claiming to offer an “FDA-approved” test to “know if you are immune,” “gain peace of mind,” & “return to work without fear”

His Santa Clara antibody study is the best example I can think of in recent memory. Was that ever replicated?

"It’s hard not to read these files and come to the conclusion that Epstein helped engineer the ultimate elite impunity — in which our society has been totally destroyed so the richest and most powerful men in the world can do whatever they want." — @lopatto.bsky.social

Housing first works

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back to a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” IT SAVES PUBLIC MONEY to house people.

man I’m sorry to be all corny here but when I see a “the city is beautiful! There’s more to it than homeless people!” I gotta say you know who’s also beautiful? People who have no place to live & are trying to get by in a system that has turned its back on them & if you don’t see that that’s on you

Joseph Gordon-Levitt is supporting The Heritage Foundation's tech policy agenda, boosting a proposed law by Lindsey Graham that would mass deplatform LGBTQ people and censor abortion content from the internet. And he's trying to frame it as progressive!

An opinion I pretty firmly hold is that everyone should make a song, paint a painting, act in something, and write a book even if all of those things end up being objectively terrible

This is the future that (Texas) liberals want: taxpayer-funded goats clearing invasives from public parks & restoring the health of native prairie.

Artificial light at night may extend pollen season by 1–2 weeks, raising allergy risks. Researchers say light pollution is a public-health “blind spot” urban planners should consider.

Back when I was on the birdsite, this tweet got more hateful responses and resulted in me blocking more people than I can count. Landlord bootlickers are the worst.

A specialized version of ChatGPT designed to interpret ECGs was found to interpret ECGs with 24% accuracy. …Meaning it was wrong 76% of the time at the time-sensitive test used to diagnose heart attacks and arrhythmias, among other things.

Concentration camps: “For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick."

The IRS already knows what you need to pay in taxes – so why doesn’t it just tell you instead of putting you through a costly and tax-consuming reporting process? Answer: Because Congress is catering to tax prep companies. buff.ly/8koKPYG #taxes

Shut it all down. We're never going to top this

No disrespect to @booker.senate.gov, but have any members of Congress gone to Minneapolis to function as observers and put their bodies on the line?

Never forget — everyone is fighting a battle you can't see

just building this awful camp system is a crime against humanity imo

The proposed centers are so large that some could house as many as 8,000 detainees at once, according to a DHS spreadsheet of more than 20 potential locations that was verified by NBC News. The largest federal prison in the U.S., for example, has roughly 4,000 inmates.

Keep this in mind when people claim cars mean business — closing Central #Madrid to cars over holidays resulted in a 9.5% boost in retail spending on its main shopping street: STUDY. There was also a 71% drop in air pollution. Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

anyone defending ICE is going to burn in hell, just one mom’s opinion

The GOP just had its best chance to finally flip a legislative seat in Trump 2.0. Democrats had other ideas. Chasity Martinez just won a rural Trump+13 in the Louisiana House in a 24-point landslide—an overperformance of 37 points. Our complete writeup on this remarkable outcome -->

This just shows a fundamental misunderstanding of how to do news. Data helps, but data doesn’t tell a reporter to spend a years-long investigation into child labor or an editor to place staff in a country on the brink of war. What exactly does Bezos think WaPo’s “journalistic mission” is?

These influencers are setting an extremely unrealistic expectation around how much control you have over your pregnancy. Then if something goes wrong, this person has already spent a year (maybe more) trained on the idea that if something goes wrong, it’s *their* fault 😣 apple.news/AvZVKddnOQw2...

This is bleak: Jes Staley, currently CEO of Barclays, reassuring Epstein that popular revolt against financial elites is unlikely because capitalism and pop culture have defanged social movements, leaving people more invested in consumption than justice.

“Amalia had been healthy before immigration officers arrested her family… Amalia’s health quickly deteriorated [in Dilley]. On Jan. 18, she was rushed to a children’s hospital where doctors treated her for pneumonia, Covid-19, RSV and severe respiratory distress.” www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

"The deployment is on track to exceed $600 million at the one-year mark, in August. “Despite that significant investment of taxpayer dollars, the National Guard has been unable to identify any measurable public safety outcomes attributable to their presence...” www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

Punish the villains

Leading American companies — including Palantir, Deloitte, and private prison giant GEO Group — raked in over $22B from ICE and CBP contracts last year. Do not forget who is profiting from cruelty and human suffering. https://www.ft.com/content/c74170d3-237d-459c-8642-bfd71530897d

American-made munitions have played a significant role in Israel’s operations in Gaza. Bellingcat has collated scores of incidents where the remnants of US-made munitions have been found in the aftermath of Israeli strikes. Read here: www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/01...

Americans are wondering if their own police departments are going to protect them from criminal federal agents and every time a video like this comes out, there's an answer.

🚨Minneapolis Sheriffs aggressively push ICE protesters into a corner, using their police vehicles to threaten running them over to get them to move. LIVE NOW ⬇️

“After baby Amalia had been hospitalized for 10 days, ICE thought this baby should be returned to Dilley, where she was denied access to the medicines that the hospital doctors told her she needed."

“Renee was not the first person killed, and she was not the last,” Becca Good said. “You know my wife’s name and you know Alex’s name, but there are many others in this city being harmed that you don’t know — their families are hurting just like mine, even if they don’t look like mine.”

part of me still can't believe the East Wing was completely destroyed and there have been no negative consequences or reports on whether items inside were properly archived or not

10/10 no notes

Fuck these fucking thieves

So, a federal agent killed Renee Good. Top Trump Admin officials mobilized to defame Good and lie about the nature of her death. Then, they immediately obstructed the investigation into Good’s killing. A killing and a coverup. An outrageous injustice.

for those who haven't seen it!

ICE has grabbed so many people from their vehicles that there are abandoned cars across Minnesota. This tow truck driver returns the cars for free as a public service, and he’s been getting death threats. They hate the helpers. Which is why must keep helping.

Every instance of "AI democratizes the arts, you're classist and ableist and a gatekeeper for trying to stop it" is a slap in the face to the literally centuries of poor, disabled people making art on the margins and a crass lie in service of a machine that strips down and regurgitates dreams

Sen. Fetterman: I'm cool with concentration camps, but not when they overload the sewer systems

Not only did they bring a small private army, but among the waste of taxpayer money was BRINGING A FULL PLANE OF FOOD. To *Italy*.

After consulting with Trump chief of staff Susie Wiles, intel chief Tulsi Gabbard is hiding "evidence of an unusual phone call between an individual associated with foreign intelligence and a person close to Donald Trump," according to the Guardian. Criminals are running our federal government.

Full story: apnews.com/article/immi...